The second story of the ancient sword II

Where the orange candlelight illuminated was a slightly busy figure, Yiqing was arranging her bedding.

"...Sister...thank you."

"What can I thank you for?" Yiqing turned around, hugged the quilt with both arms, smiled strangely, and dexterously flashed to the door, "I'll leave your wife to you, I'm leaving!"

"Hey, master, senior sister—" Yi called to stop Yiqing, "Senior sister, can you stop talking about..."

"Huh?" Yiqing opened his eyes wide and looked at Yi Ze, "Are you talking about Yichenzi's flirts? Senior sister, what I am writing now is as deep as the sea——Yichenzi! Why, you don't like it?"

"No...that's not what it means."

"Oh, I see, that's what I like." Without giving Yi Ze a chance to explain, Yi Qing quickly ran away.

"Hey, Yi is blushing again." A Ruan took his hand, "Actually, Senior Sister Yiqing isn't that scary, she's quite a person!"

"Oh... yes, yes." Yi Ze thumped his forehead, put down his sword and sat down beside the bed, staring at A Ruan for a long time.

"Why are you looking at him like that?" Ah Ruan rested his head on Yi Ze's shoulder.

"...Tomorrow..." Yi Ze paused, "...Tomorrow, I have to go to the court to listen to the government. Ah Ruan, can you stay in Taihua Temple? Master and senior sister will take good care of you."

"No, I want to go back with Yi Ze! I don't want to stay here alone."

"It's safe here." Yi Ze caressed A Ruan's hair, "Li Kang did a good job in saving him this time, he stayed in the capital, I'm worried..."

"...Then I will miss Yi Ze very much, I don't want to..." A Ruan buried her head in Yi Ze's arms, thinking about the changes in her body last night, really afraid that if she lost her life Sudden depletion of strength... Then I would never see Yize again, so I raised my head and said decisively: "Yize, don't leave me and little Yize, we will go wherever you go, and the whole family will be together when they arrive." Be together everywhere!"

"...But, I have to get up very early tomorrow." Yi Ze finally couldn't hold back Ah Ruan, so he had to agree.

"I know." A Ruan got into the quilt quickly, "Isn't it just getting up early, I'm going to sleep now, hurry up, I'm asleep..."

"Alas..." Yi Ze looked at A Ruan's face dumbfounded, feeling a little worried besides helplessness.

Frost wind arrives, gold and emerald eyes are everywhere, the blue moon is in the court, and it is the season of planting dogwood everywhere, and a slight chill comes slowly as time goes by.

"Your Majesty." Xiaoyue walked in with a fancy dress.

"Huh?" Kong Zhaoyi rubbed her drowsy head, and put the book in her hand on the case.It's the annual Double Ninth Festival again, and family banquets in the palace are indispensable. Appreciating chrysanthemums, hairpin chrysanthemums, and eating Double Ninth Cakes are all important customs.

"Your Majesty, raise your hands up..." Xiaoyue was busy inside and out, "Young Majesty is so beautiful in this outfit!"

"I really don't like to go to any family banquet, it's so respectful, I can't eat anything at all, let alone those things..." Kong Zhaoyi suddenly paused in the middle of speaking, thinking that he didn't want to eat, and suddenly felt sick.Tightening his belt, he turned his head to Xiaoyue and asked, "What day is it today?"

"Chongyang, the ninth day of the lunar new year?!"

"Oh." Kong Zhaoyi didn't say anything, looked at her still flat belly, secretly horrified in her heart, no good, it must be the evil seed left that night... If it is removed, it will definitely reveal traces, in case the Holy Majesty finds out, only There is a dead end; the only solution for the present is to speed up the power that fuels the flames.

In the Daming Palace, golden chrysanthemums are laid on both sides of the steps, and the red carpet embroidered with gold extends all the way to the outside of the palace.A Ruan, who was dressed in palace attire, stood out with a stomach that was extremely disproportionate to her figure, and took every step carefully with Yi Ze's arm.

"Yi Ze, Yi Ze, being the daughter-in-law of the royal family is really troublesome, not to mention wearing so many layers of clothes, you have to learn etiquette, and you have to come to the family banquet." Along the way, Ah Ruan was unhappy, but still bit the bullet. He came, tightened Yi Ze's arm and asked again: "...I won't choose a concubine for you again this time, will I?"

"Then..." Yi Ze prolonged his voice on purpose, teasing A Ruan to stare at him intently, "What if we really want to choose a concubine again?"

"Hmph! I'm not so easy to talk this time!" Ah Ruan hugged his shoulders, "The last time I was deceived by the Concubine De, although she is a very good person. I can't give up Yi Ze Someone else, last time I cried for several days! But I didn’t tell you.”

"Really? You care about me that much?" Yi Ze stopped and turned to face A Ruan, "I care about you too."

"Of course I care. Otherwise, I wouldn't have left with that pretty sister because I was afraid of becoming a drag on you when I got separated in Poor Alley..."

"What beautiful sister?" Yi Ze suddenly recalled in his mind that Ah Ruan disappeared in a poor alley not long after returning to Chang'an after getting married.That night he found A Ruan in the cold palace, and he had already guessed that the person who brought A Ruan into the palace must be someone from the palace, but she didn't want to say it.

"Beautiful sister, that's..." Ah Ruan faltered, hesitating.On the opposite side, a concubine in gorgeous palace attire was walking towards Daming Palace with a maid.

"It's you..." Ah Ruan stood there stunned, the concubine was getting closer and closer to them, it was Kong Zhaoyi.Kong Zhaoyi was also a little dazed when he saw Yi Ze and A Ruan, his eyes stayed on A Ruan's swollen belly, and his heart was full of turmoil.

"Don't come here safe and sound, Concubine Ruan is very lucky." Kong Zhaoyi smiled at A Ruan, then nodded to Yi Zeying and saluted: "Third Highness Wanan!"

Yi took a closer look and looked familiar, it turned out to be the woman who was watching the morning from the top of the palace when she went to the palace to find medicine!Although he didn't have a good impression of her, seeing that there was no hostility between Ah Ruan and her, he loosened his frown.Hearing the words 'Don't come here without any harm', Yi Ze guessed a little bit in his heart, could it be her who kidnapped Ah Ruan? !

"It turns out...you are the empress of the harem...I...but I still have to thank you..." Ah Ruan twisted her skirt unnaturally, before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by another voice.

"Sister! I'm coming!" Kong Miaozhu, who was wearing heavy makeup, quickly jumped off the carriage and ran over.

"No one looks right!" Kong Zhaoyi's body was almost bumped by his sister, "I still don't salute Your Highness!"

"Oh!" Kong Miaozhu responded, and then began to salute clumsily, and when he settled his eyes, he saw clearly that there were two people in front of him, and his complexion immediately became much uglier.

"Sister... I... I don't want it!"

"Oh." Kong Zhaoyi shook his head, "Your Highness, don't blame me, my sister is so unruly."

"It doesn't matter." While speaking, Yi Ze tightly grasped Ah Ruan's hand.

"Go there with my sister to enjoy the flowers." Kong Zhaoyi grabbed Kong Miaozhu's arm tightly and dragged him aside.

"Ah Ruan." Yi Ze supported her by the shoulders, "It's her, right?"

"Yeah." Ah Ruan nodded, "But if it wasn't for her, maybe I would have been captured by that Taoist priest, although..."

"I understand, Ah Ruan, don't think too much." Yi Ze's words reassured her a lot.

After thirty days of drinking, the atmosphere of the family banquet became more and more intense. Kong Zhaoyi raised his glass and made a toast to Emperor Yuan: "Your Majesty, this year's weather is good and the harvest has increased greatly. The three towns of Heshuo are the strong backing of our Tang Dynasty!"

"My concubine's words are true. Empress, when the time comes for the pilgrimage, I will reward you well!" Emperor Sheng Yuan cast his eyes on the empress and the second prince who were sitting beside him.

What kind of medicine is in Kong Zhaoyi's gourd?The queen didn't think of anything for a while, but when she heard that she was praising her mother's powerful family, she also showed a smug look on her face.Quickly got up to raise his glass, and said to Emperor Shengyuan: "Everything should be done, the prosperity of my Heshuo is under the shadow of the Tang Dynasty!"

Emperor Sheng Yuan drank his glass in one gulp, constantly pondering what Zhaoyi and the empress said in his heart, it was a good reminder, but the empress was still in a dream.It seems that it is time to clean up Heshuo.No matter who the second child or the third child will sit on the dragon seat in the future, He Shuo's power needs to be pruned.Otherwise, once the power is too strong, the situation will be difficult to control, and the three towns will be like a hungry wolf waiting for an opportunity.

"Queen, my Tang Dynasty is a country of etiquette, and Chang'an is the home of the Imperial Academy. I pass on my decree to let the princes of the three towns who have not tied their hair come to Chang'an to study the Imperial Academy and enter the Imperial Academy." Emperor Shengyuan said After knowing it, he glanced at Kong Zhaoyi lightly, "Also, pass the decree, the children of other vassal states who have not tied their hair should also come to Chang'an to study, so as to promote my Confucianism in the Tang Dynasty!"

"This... is very good! Your Majesty is wise." When the Queen heard about Emperor Sheng Yuan's decision, she didn't know whether it was good or bad, but she still knew that studying Taixue was the supreme honor.

Sitting at the table, Yi Ze took a sip of wine and immediately understood in his heart.On the surface, it is to let the princes from various prefectures come to study the Taixue, but in fact, those princes who have not tied their hair are just underage children, and they don't have much ability.If they are brought over, they will undoubtedly become hostages. This way of reducing the power of the vassal state will give them a few more layers of confidence.Li Kang also understood the mystery, and his father's intention was self-evident.Reducing the power of the three towns of Heshuo is equivalent to reducing the power of his mother's family.Dare to be angry and dare not speak, so he could only hold the wine glass tightly, with anger burning in his chest.

①Hair binding: In ancient times, boys tied their hair in a bun when they became children. Usually, they were around 15 years old when they tied their hair. At this time, they should learn various skills.In ancient times, men held crown ceremony at the age of 20.Therefore, the Lord called 20 years old by "weak crown".In ancient times, the fifteenth year of a woman's year was called "Jiji", also known as "Jiji".In ancient times, women who were engaged were fifteen years old; those who were not engaged were twenty years old.Refers to a girl who has reached the age to marry.